Good Monday Morning! If you are looking for my Monday Menu post go here.

Here at My Cricut Craft Room it is My Imagine-ation Monday. We were asked to do something centered around our favorite book today. Well, I am a book lover...but mainly a children's book lover since I spent 17 years teaching school. I needed a book mark for my brand new 2013 planner. (isn't it pretty?)   So, I thought well let me combine the two things together. My favorite children's author is Jan Brett. Check her out if you have elementary aged children and have never read her books. My class wrote to her several years in a row and we always received an information packet in return, usually showcasing her newest book. Well, there is one beloved character in every single book she writes and this character is named after her pet hedgehog, Hedgie. I used to share all this with my students and they loved trying to find Hedgie in her books in the illustrations if he was not a main character. So, in honor of my love of Jan Brett I created my planner bookmark with a Hedgehog character.

Supplies:
all paper was scrap papers in my stash
Hedgehog was cut at 2.81" on my Gypsy
Circle was cut at 4.90" on my Gypsy
Cartridges used: Create a Critter, Cherry Limeade

Head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to get more inspiration!

Theme Day Thursday with My Cricut Craft Room

Only 5 more crafting days till Christmas!!! I hope you have gotten all your crafty presents complete or almost there! I had the need for a holiday card so thought I would whip out this snowman card....I cut him from Snow Friends and then dolled him up with some stickles,  plopped him on this absolutely adorable piece of paper I pulled out of a stashed stack in my Christmas pile of paper. Then, I added a snowflake button up in the top corner. It took all of about 5 minutes to whip out this card....mainly because I have a whole stash of Cricut cuts I keep on hand to use in a quick pinch! Hope you enjoy!

So head on over to My Cricut Craft Room and see what my design team sisters have created to share with you. 

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday

I am thrilled to show you one of my most favorite layouts of my little princess and Cinderella. We went to Disney for the first time the year after she turned 2 in September...that seems like yesterday and at the same time seems so long ago.

I cut Cinderella at 6" and then added lots of bling with stickles. The tag embellishments are Jolee's and I do not know where the blingy bird came from. I also added liquid glass to the castle turrets on the page. Thanks for taking a look.

Don't forget to head over to My Cricut Craft Room and see what my other Design Team sisters have to share with you.

My Cricut Craft Room Festive Friday

I am sooo into the Christmas spirit. Everything around my house is decorated, music playing, Christmas baking smells filling the air, and there is more to come. I am happy to share today this cute and simple project.

So over at My Cricut Craft Room the theme for today is Gingerbread. So check it out to see everyone's post using various takes on gingerbread.

I cut 2 Gingerbread men from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge...this is my favorite gingerbread man cut! I designed them on my Gypsy and cut at 4.06." I cut the background image because I did not want the face and line details on him. I then used my Viva Decor pens to put on the details. Simple...it took me about 8 minutes. He is going to be the tags for these cute little ceramic dishes you see in the picture. I am making mini gingerbread loaves to send off to my dad in his homemade package for Christmas. Check back next Monday and I will share all the contents of his awesome package!

My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

For the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop click here.

I am also excited to share with you today several different projects I made for the 100 cartridge blog hop over at My Cricut Craft Room where I am on the Design Team. There is some amazing talent going on here this weekend. I hope it inspires you to get your craft on today or tomorrow!

Project 1: I used the Snow Friends cartridge to make this really cute snowman to be the center of attention on this wreath for my granddaughter's bedroom door. I cut the snowman at 7" so he was big enough for the center of the wreath. I also color coordinated the color of his attire to the colors in my ribbon.

Project 2. I plan to cut tags for one main present of each person in my family this year. I started with my daughter and daughter-in-law. I used Forever Young and chose 2 of the silhouette of the girls and red and green for their attire. I then made tags to mount each lady on. I made the ladies at 5.89" on my Gypsy. I realized I made the tags a bit large, but, thank goodness both of these tags are going onto some large packages.

Project 3: My oldest daughter's name is Holly. At Christmas time she totally gets into the fact that her name is so popular at Christmas. Maybe I had something to do with that though. heehee. She wants holly everything. I started when she was quite young wrapping her presents in holly paper, putting holly on her packages and so forth. So I used the holly image on Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge as a package decoration for one of her presents. I cut it at 4.71" again using my Gypsy.

Project 4: This was a super simple project for me. I received this tri-fold Christmas decoration in a swap a couple of years ago. It has been sitting in my craft room just waiting to be used. I am decorating my hutch differently this year and have been scrounging around the house to  find things to use. When I saw this I knew exactly what I could do. I used Ashlyn's Alphabet (one of my favorite font cartridges) and cut out the word JOY and adhered a letter to each panel. It is going to look absolutely adorable on my hutch!

Hop right along and check what the amazingly talented Jamie has to show you this month!


Here is the whole line up for you!
My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ 
Jen L http://www.mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/ 
Shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com/ 

Kathy http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Nadja http://nadjarobbins.blogspot.com/
Sarah W http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/
Erica’s Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
Mary http://Mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/
Liz http://enchantress2614.blogspot.com/
Teresa http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com/ <===== you are here
Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/ =======> go here next
Robin http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/
Sarah H http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/
Tami http://scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com/
Erica’s Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

Join the Fun...Mickey Fun that is!!

Over at My Cricut Craft Room today you can see all sorts of Mickey projects. Back in May my grandson had a Mickey Mouse birthday party. I have some of those projects for you to view today. I wish I had taken better pictures. I had no idea at the time I was going to use them for a design team project. They are mighty cute though!

**click on pictures to view larger and see the detail.

Banner:

Table Decor:

Party Hat:

I used the Mickey Mouse Cricut cartridges to create all of these projects...I apologize again for not being able to give your specific details of each item.

So head on over to My Cricut Craft Room and check out all the Mickey Projects posted there. And to all a Magical Day!!

Great News!

Good Morning to all my crafty friends!

I just found out I am going to be a new member of the awesome design team over at Erica's Craft Room.
Look for me to debut soon! In the meantime why don't you browse on over there and check out all the wonderful inspiration her blog has to offer. This weekend there is a 100 Cartridge Blog Hop and a Teddy Bear Parade Blog Hop. I know I will be looking there to find some great inspiration. I am sooooo excited and cannot wait to show you all the great things I will be doing for this new Design Team!!